A Terrible Dilemma! How does one escape from it?
All through history some people see the "insanity" of a warmongering attitude while others are flag-waving supporters of it. In between is a mass of people who is not informed enough to be able to decide one way or the other but shout as hard as any.
Depending on the time of day, or depending on which book or article I have just read, or which news report I have just seen, I find my self on the bandwagon of either one of these three shouting troupes, not knowing were our parade will end up.
Years ago, I believe it was about 1979 or so, I watched a TV Report, I forget who broadcasted it, called The Children of War , and If I remember it correctly, the setting was Afghanistan.
As I write this, for the umpteenth time I can not stop myself from crying about the soul-wrenching pain that I feel when I remember the suffering children: By way of communication technologies, almost 25 years ago, I could virtually hold the hand of a dying child, and saw the bloody bits and pieces that remained of children's bodies that were torn apart by explosives or were crushed by tank tracks. The question as to who wreaked this havoc didn't even come to mind.
Should we tolerate such evil if we see it coming? Are we qualified to assign ourselves the role of Nemesis in this horrible dilemma? Is the suffering that we will inflict on children, in aid of retribution, any less evil?
The Children of War.
Goverment Leaders should be forced to watch it!
All of them in the same room.
In tears
AI
